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The document discusses insights gained about information literacy. It summarizes how information literacy is changing views on learning, teachers, students, and assessment in education. Specifically, it notes that learning is now seen as a process rather than product. Students are viewed as information seekers and teachers must prepare students to learn how to learn. Authentic assessments that measure application of skills and knowledge are emphasized over traditional testing. Overall, the document argues that integrating information literacy skills across all subjects from an early age is important for producing lifelong learners.
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- 4. 4 What insights haveIgained in this topic? Today’s classrooms represent students of all ability levels. There are some students who have the ability to accomplish whether successfully or very impressively, some students who are highly achievers and some who are in the average level, some are struggling to some areas and some has disabilities. Such diversity has made teachers aware that not all students will be successful with the same educational activities or measurements. Students have different strengths, needs, interests, and educational backgrounds. The challenge of most inclusive environments is in meeting the needs of all learners according to their strengths, ability levels, and needs, without separating students homogeneously (according to their ability levels). One thing that makes parents of students with disabilities or those who are unique is the social benefits that their children will get from entering to normal schools like my alma maters. But, aside from social benefits, academic benefits are also observed to the students with disabilities though they are unique from others. Those are seen in some many ways using some effective and powerful instructional strategies that are used by some inclusive schools like my alma maters. Inclusive teaching strategies of any kind which couldn’t just be counted with our ten fingers address the needs of students with a variety of backgrounds, learning styles, and abilities. These strategies contribute to an overall inclusive learning environment, in which students feel equally valued. As a future educator in real world, I will make inclusive approaches as my teaching practices because in that way I will be satisfied that I become an effective teacher to achieve strong measures of academic success without being bias or a closed-door for some opportunities which I may not know that students, though have disabilities can also perform like they are normal ones or can perform better that those who are normal. I don’t want to be a judgmental teacher, in short. Effective Instructional Strategies for Inclusive School/Classroom FREMA TRIXIA lIMBO
- 5. 5 What insights haveIgained in this topic? Write a reflection: Completethe section: Problem-Based Learning is… …an approach that challenges students to learn through engagement in a real problem. It is a format that simultaneously develops both problem solving strategies and disciplinary knowledge bases and skills by placing students in the active role of problem-solvers confronted with an ill-structured situation that simulates the kind of problems they are likely to face as future managers in complex organizations. Problem-based learning is student-centered. PBL makes a fundamental shift--from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning. The process is aimed at using the power of authentic problem solving to engage students and enhance their learning and motivation. Asa futureeducator,howcan you developcriticallearningskillsof thelearnersusing PBL method? As future educator, I will conduct authentic tasks, issues, and problems that are aligned with real-world concerns and activities to develop the critical learning skills of the learners using PBL method. Through those kinds of tasks, I will make them face the reality of the world which has so many problems to be solved. I think in that way I will help them think critically, realistically and purposively since they have to get the aim or the objectives of the problems I will present them. And will prepare them for a real life decision making and hands on activities. Problem-Based Learning: ThePedagogical Adventure FREMA TRIXIA lIMBO
- 6. 6 What doIneedto do? Whichis the best strategy to use in order to accomplish the mission of school very successful is one of the question that bothers teachers and administrators. The primary mission of schools is to help develop productive citizens. That is the gist of most school’s mission I know. But how can we know that we, teachers are accomplishing this mission? Through paper test assessment or traditional assessments? Is that the only skill that a productive citizens have? I read a n article about assessing students says that “Traditional assessment is grounded in educational philosophy that adopts the following reasoning and practice: A school's mission is to develop productive citizens; To be a productive citizen an individual must possess a certain body of knowledge and skills; Therefore, schools must teach this body of knowledge and skills; To determine if it is successful, the school must then test students to see if they acquired the knowledge and skills. In the TA model, the curriculum drives assessment. ‘The" body of knowledge is determined first. That knowledge becomes the curriculum that is delivered. Subsequently, the assessments are developed and administered to determine if acquisition of the curriculum occurred.’ In contrast, authentic assessment (AA) springs from the following reasoning and practice: A school's mission is to develop productive citizens; To be a productive citizen, an individual must be capable of performing meaningful tasks in the real world; Therefore, schools must help students become proficient at performing the tasks they will encounter when they graduate; To determine if it is successful, the school must then ask students to perform meaningful tasks that replicate real world challenges to see if students are capable of doing so. Thus, in AA, assessment drives the curriculum. That is, teachers first determine the tasks that students will perform to demonstrate their mastery, and then a curriculum is developed that will enable students to perform those tasks well, which would include the acquisition of essential knowledge and skills. This has been referred to as planning backwards” (e.g., McDonald, 1992). As my conclusion both assessment methods are essential to our learning and have their own special purposes that one can’t make so I will need and use both. TA usually assesses a sample of students' knowledge and understanding and assumes that students' performance on the sample is representative of their knowledge of all the relevant material. While with AA, students need to learn how to perform well on meaningful tasks. However, I will need to practice the latter method knowing that it will make my students be inspired, focus and more productive than the first one. I guess this is a good topic for research. ____________________________________________________________________________ In the field of English wherein the integration of some other subjects and trends is open, I suggest that English teachers can use various strategies in authentic assessment to cater their students’ varied intelligences. Authentic Assessment: Let’s Do It! FREMA TRIXIA lIMBO
- 7. 7 What are thesignificantinsights you havegained from this topic? In this topic, I learned that questioning enables us- teachers to check learners' understanding. It also gives learners some benefits as it encourages them to be engaged and focuses their thinking on key concepts and ideas. This questioning needs to inspire learners to embrace cognitive thought at a higher level. This technique of engaging students gives life to the teaching and learning process. How would you connect your skill in asking question to your success in facilitating learning in your classroom? I would connect my skill in asking the right question to my success in facilitating learning in my classroom by means of how I engage my learners to be focused and more conscious about the main concepts and ideas I am presenting to them. My skill on questioning has a big connection to my successful facilitating learning because asking questions not only gives color, direction and interaction to the class discussion but also opens the door for students’ critical way of thinking which will make them more aware of the topic. What is the significance ofyour understanding of thelevels of questions? Understanding what the differences of each level of questions are because that knowledge will lead me to the right question to ask so they will get the information needed. Questions and Questioning FREMA TRIXIA lIMBO
- 8. 8 Mypersonal related experience: Integratingtrends to my students’ world to our topic so I may hold their attentions towards the topic is one of the biggest struggles of mine when thinking of how my lesson goes along. One time I had hard time thinking how my grammar lesson will be integrated to the trends nowadays. I prepared them hashtag boards so they will be able to write on the board any information or best moments of their HS lives in a single sentence then make a hash tag out of the sentence they made. In that way, I will know something about their thoughts which I have integrated to our information question lesson. Integration is not that hard to certain topics in our field but thinking how or what will be the best integration or strategy to be used is hard. I need to be more intelligent about it so I will use the strategy more effectively. Reflection: For me, Integrative teaching is a must to be practiced by all the learners for numbers of reasons and some of them are: 1) it makes the learning process more interesting and broader; 2) it is one of the emerging trends in education for the past years; 3) It focuses on connections rather teaching isolated facts; 4) subjects being taught to are not separate and isolated field of knowledge, but are linked to each other in order to achieve understanding and concept attainment. Furthermore, integrative teaching connects what is learned in school to real life situations, thus it is more on developing problem solving and discussions of issues in the real world. Learners will learn to relate what they learn and apply it to their own daily lives. In addition, integrative teaching involves consideration on the learners' individual differences. These include multiple intelligences and learning styles. I as a teacher therefore must present the lesson in various ways that can cater each learner's uniqueness. Lesson Plan is on the following page. Integrative Teaching Strategies FREMA TRIXIA lIMBO
- 9. 9 Let me tellfirst what I have understood about Information Literacy. As I have known, it encompasses knowledge of one's information concerns and needs, and the ability to identify, locate, evaluate, organize and effectively create, use and communicate information to address issues or problems at hand and it is also a part of lifelong learning. I will just compress my insights about information literacy changing views on learning, on teachers, on students and on assessment to make my ideas much clearer. For the first one which is about changing views on learning, since basic literacy includes the skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening, counting, calculating, perceiving and drawing, learning is now perceived as a process, not a product. Why? Because according to an article saying “"People do not quit learning when they leave school, but remain lifelong learners.” Thus, in the learning process, objectives are flexible, taking individual and cultural differences into account. Current events, local resources and student's interests are also taken into account as curriculum objectives are adjusted to make learning more relevant. The classroom is viewed as an environment where active learning takes place. Overhead projectors, television monitors, VCRs and computers are standard equipment in the classroom. Classroom environment is conducive to learning and encourages students to become self-reliant and responsible for their own learning. For the second one which is about changing views on students, since students today are viewed as information seekers, information users, decision makers and problem solvers, then what they learn depends on what they need to know to make a decision or to solve a problem. In the changing views on teachers, teaching methods and in education, information literature should be integrated with the traditional school subject areas, but it should also be considered as a separate core discipline especially for purposes of goal setting, curriculum design and evaluation since, today's educators are responsible for preparing students to be effective users of information. The goal is to prepare students early on to "learn how to learn" and carry these skills into other areas of their lives so that they can be independent seekers and consumers of information throughout their lives (Humes, 1999). Also, according to Lenox (1993), teachers must be prepared to "teach students to become critical thinkers, intellectually curious observers, creators and users of information" The goal is to prepare students early on to "learn how to learn" and carry these skills into other areas of their lives so that they can be independent seekers and consumers of information throughout their lives. So, teachers of all subjects must blend their traditional fact-based approach with an emphasis on learner-based inquiry and the scientific inquiry process. This means shifting some of the responsibility of gaining knowledge from the teacher to the student and allowing students to develop questions, strategies to search for answers and formulate conclusions and the identification of information literacy skills needed for lifelong learning and thinking promotes a change in what is taught. Lastly, big changing views on assessment, authentic assessments must be used since they are intended to gauge what students learn by measuring how well they use the information such as portfolios, presentations and written reports. In conclusion, information literacy as it is being emphasized today since it is also very trendy to the attitudes and behaviors of our students in this generation and beyond, in order to produce learners who are information-literate, schools will need to integrate information literacy skills across the curriculum in all subject areas beginning in the earliest grades. Educational institutions that wish to produce lifelong learners should be engaged in some fairly basic rethinking of how teaching faculty and information specialists such as librarians and media specialists can work together toward this end (Brittingham 1994). Information Literature: TheDefining Paradigm of Modern Education FREMA TRIXIA lIMBO